Che: Rise and Fall (2007)

Directed by

Eduardo Montes-Bradley, Alberto Granado

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary covers the life and death of Che Guevara. It was shot in Cuba when his remains were brought from Bolivia for burial. The film includes interviews with people who fought alongside him and shows original footage and photographs.

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What happens

Che Rise & Fall is a documentary film by Eduardo Montes-Bradley. The film was entirely shot in Cuba at the time Che Guevara's remains were airlifted from Bolivia to Santa Clara, his final resting place. The documentary features the testimonies of Guevara’s comrades-in-arms in Sierra Maestra, Congo and Bolivia, also by Alberto Granado with whom Guevara rode a motorcycle from Argentina on a trip that will end 16 years later in the jungles of Bolivia, an experience that was brought to the big screen on The Motorcycle Diaries. Che Rise & Fall begins with an account of Guevara's death in Bolivia in 1967 and fittingly ends with footage of the return of his remains for interment in Santa Clara's Revolution Square some 30 years later. According to Lourdes Vázquez of Rutgers University Library, the film documents Guevara's frustrated experience during the period spent fighting in Congo's Revolutionary War as well as his sense of failure. The documentary includes original archival footage, original photographs captured by Ernesto Guevara in Mexico, and images from the ceremony of Guevara’s remains being brought to Santa Clara. Some of these images were originally part of the documentary "Che, a man of this world" (1998) by Marcelo Schapces. Che: Rise & Fall premiered on National Geographic Channel on June 14, 2007 and has been released on DVD in the U.S., Germany, United Kingdom, Portugal, and Spain. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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